Harapan : facing possibilities in Indonesia and Philippine Modernities

The Exhibition of "Harapan: Facing Possibilities in Indonesian and Philippine Modernities" is part of exhibition program of permanent collection of the Indonesia National Gallery. This program is initiated as an extension of our national scale program of permanent collection exhibition in several cities in Indonesia, either in Java and also in other region in Indonesia. This implementation of exhibition program of any permanent collection outside Jakarta city is our effort to improve directly a public interaction with our important collection. We hope, at the end, this program can stimulate further intensive cooperation among various art institutions as well as art public in general. The international exhibition program of permanent collection is also our concern and support to "Beijing Resolution" (2007) that have been formulated by the Asian Art Museum Director Forum some years ago in order to improve the mutual cooperation among institution of art museum in Asia.
This exhibition of HARAPAN in Manila city is the second international exhibition program of our permanent collection following the first one that had been organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We believe that this exhibition will be soon continue by other similar important, interesting and challenging exhibition of the Indonesian and of Philippine contemporary art in Jakarta next year. The cooperation in organizing this exhibition of HARAPAN at the same time is also show fundamentally a mutual understanding between the Indonesia National Gallery and the National Museum of The Philippines to support the significant and strategic Memorandum of Understanding of cooperation in field of cultural program between Indonesia and the Philippines that had been signed since the year of 1959. This exhibition is not only an important and strategic starting point of cooperation for both institution, the Indonesia National Gallery and the National Museum of The Philippines, but also will be come a meaningful hallmark of people and cultural interaction of Indonesia and the Philippines.